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090527
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Saudi Arabia holds about 25 percent of the world's proven oil reserves, is by far the largest exporter of oil, and maintains the largest spare production capacity in the world. US oil production started to decline in 1970, while US energy needs have skyrocketed since that time, and the United States is now the world's largest oil consumer.
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090512
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2009.
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These are though times for idealists- even in France, birthplace of modern humanitarianism. Just two years ago, President Serkozy pledged to make human rights an unprecedented centerpiece of his foreign policy, vowing in his victory speech to reach out to all those in the world.
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090533
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2009.
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In this Opera, Turkey has been cast in one of the leading roles. With its indispensable geographic position between the oil and gas reserves of Iraq, Iran, and the Caspian, it is an absolute certainty that Turkey will host major pipelines sooner or later.
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090515
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2009.
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The current crisis finds Latin America and the Caribbean economically stonger than decades ago, but the area is also in urgent need of a response to social demands. This crisis has already been unleashed, and we are still measuring its real consequences. Its impacts and severity will depend on its duration but alos on how governments respond and how the international community supports those efforts.
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090536
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2009.
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Greening the world will certainly eliminate some of the most serious risks we face, but it will aslo create new ones. A move to electric cars, for example, could set off a competition for lithium another limited, geographically concentrated resource. The sheer amout of water needed to create some kinds of alternative energy could suck certain region dry, upping the odds of resource based conflict.
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090524
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2009.
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Oil's very future is now being seriously questioned, debated, and challenged. The author of an acclaimed history explains why, just as we need more oil than ever, it is changing faster than we can keep up with.
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090513
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2009.
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In Latin America, the culture of philanthropy is not a strong as in other parts of the world. Charity has always been present there, but it is often informal and done through personal relationships or the Church.
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090518
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2009.
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At the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), we believe that one way to overcome this emerging disparity in the philanthropic sphere is through partnerships that maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of development efforts.
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090520
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2009.
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Even the most skeptical observers of technology cannot deny that the advent of new media characterised by revolution in self publishing and the forthcoming arrival of the next billion Internet users has the capacity to radically transform the world of philanthropy.
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090510
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2009.
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In the 1950s, as the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union was threatening to spiral out of control, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower hired Oskar Morgenstern, the Princeton University economist. With bluffs so much easier to make and threats so much more protentous than any previous time in history.
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090522
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2009.
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US foreign policy does indeed have multiple goals that must be balanced, but promoting reform is often one of them. Brutal regimes will not behave better if the United States speaks nicely about them. In fact, the perception of US weakness in supporting its friends is a greater disadvantage when negotiating with regimes like those in North Korea and Iran that are quick to perceive vulnerability.
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090529
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2009.
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Across the globe, oil is invoked as an agent of destiny. Oil will make you rich, oil will make you poor, oil will bring war, oil will deliver peace, oil will shape our world as much as the glaciers did in the Ice age.
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090537
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2009.
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NBR and other nonpratisan, nonprofit organisations offer diverse philosophies, missions, and areas of focus, but they face common hurdle in securing our future. Any effective global strategy must consider the closely interwined needs of financial security and environmental sustainability.
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090535
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2009.
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As the world looks around anxiously for an alternative to oil, energy sources such as biofuels, solar, and nuclear seem like they could be the magic ticket. We need to do everything possible to promote alternative energy.
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090526
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2009.
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For years, oil wealth was mostly a danger to those, paradoxically, who possessed it. Resource-rich Middle Eastern countries, and their labor-exporting neighbors, failed for decades to invest adequately in their people or to diversify their economies.
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